Annual TCBES Research Symposium Program
10th Annual TCBES Research Symposium Program
Thursday, April 5th 2018
| Time | Morning Event |
|---|---|
| 9am-9:30am | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Keynote Speaker: Chad Wiggins, The Nature Conservancy |
| 10:30am-10:45am | Questions |
1st Session: 5min talks
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:45am | Gina McGuire, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Australia's Traditional Dugong Population Management: Implications for Modern Conservation Practice |
| 10:50am | Ashley Pugh, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | The Hawaiian Blue Octocoral, Sarcothelia edmondsoni, as a pollution indicator species |
| 10:55am | Eirlys Tysall, UH Hilo TCBES Undergraduate Student | Individual vocalization variation and repertoire size of the endemic Hawaiian thrush ‘oma‘o (Myadestes obscurus) |
| 11:00am | Karen Gallardo Cruz, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Examining the effect of helicopter noise on bird assemblages in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park |
| 11:05am | Erin Netoskie, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Behavioral landscape of ʻŌmaʻo (Myadestes obscurus) vocalizations in a naturally fragmented landscape |
| 11:10am | Kristina Montoya-Aiona, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | A revised dichotomous key for adventive bees in Hawai‘i with special focus on a recent invader: Megachile policaris (Megachilidae) |
| 11:15am | Angalee Kirby, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Is biological nitrogen fixation strategy tied to invasive success for non-native woody legumes in Hawai‘i? |
| 11:20am | Joanna Norton, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Is albizia compost a climate-smart alternative to fertilizer use in agriculture? |
2nd Session: 15 min talks
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:45am | Geneviève Blanchet, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Genomic diversity in the “extinct in the wild” Hawaiian Crow, ‘alalā, (Corvus hawaiiensis) |
| 12:00pm | Kathryn van Dyk, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Important plants for Nectarivorous Birds in a Continuous and Naturally Fragmented Forest on Hawai‘i Island |
| 12:15 | Jeff Stallman, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | DNA barcodes fail to accurately differentiate species within Hawaiian plant lineages |
12:30pm-1:45pm Lunch Break
3rd Session: 15 min talks
| Time | Speaker | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1:45pm | Cherie Kauahi, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Hydrology of Loko Iʻa |
| 2:00pm | Tyler Gerken, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Soil sources of Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and fecal indicator bacteria concentrations in a Hawaiian watershed |
| 2:15pm | Justyne Shope, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Phosphate fluxes to the water column from sediments at five marine locations of Hilo, Hawai‘i, USA |
| 2:30pm | Julia M. Stewart, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Assessing the photochemistry of healthy and diseased Porites lobata coral tissue in Hilo, East Hawai‘i Island |
| 2:45pm | Roseanna Lee, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Changes in obligate coral-feeding reef fish populations after mass coral bleaching at Lisianski Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands |
| 3:00pm | Anna Baker Mikkelsen, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Tracking long-term shifts in Hawaiian reef fish assemblages: A 17-years view |
| 3:15pm | Rebecca Ostertag, Ryan Perroy, Timothy Sullivan & Jonathan Price, UH Hilo Faculty | Invasive Species on UH Hilo Campus: The Problem and Potential Solutions |
| 3:30pm | Andy Cole, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Modeling plant species densities in Hawai‘i |
| 3:45pm-4:00pm | Closing Remarks |
Poster Session & Pau Hana Reception
| Time | Poster Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00-7:00pm | ||
| David Arakawa, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Genetic underpinnings of beak morphology in birds | |
| Tyler Jo Branco-Hedke, Tiana Enos-Dano, Ericka Terra Reff, Rebecca Alameida & Stan T. Nakanishi, UH Hilo | Antibacterial efficacy of Hawaiian plants | |
| Jesse Leavitt, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | No evidence for horizontal transinfection of Wolbachia from Aedes albopictus to Culex quinquefasciatus following a lab-based feeding trial | |
| Rebekah Loving, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Investigating the effects of rare variants in concurrent drug usage: An association analysis approach | |
| Michael Ryan Morrissey, Tyler Jo Branco-Hedke, Tiana Enos- Dano, Matthew S. Geddis & Stan T. Nakanishi, UH Hilo | Elucidating the effects of native Hawaiian plants on planarian regeneration | |
| Michael Pamatat, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Investigating the variance of a PCA analogue for phylogenetic trees | |
| Nikola Rodriguez, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Quantitative and qualitative assessment of underwater video annotations | |
| Ashley Romero, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Developing a framework for functional ecology to be used to predict extinction risk in Hawaiian forest birds | |
| Julia M. Stewart, Roseanna Lee, Matthew Connelly, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | The Marine Option Program’s SeaSTARS | |
| Jessica Talbot, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Investigating the effects of freshwater input on coral community composition and 3D structure at Honokoa, Hawai‘i | |
| Veronica White, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Investigation of phosphorus levels in Hawai'i island coastal waters and agricultural soil |
Friday, April 6th 2018
| Time | Morning Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30am-9:00am | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00am-10:00am | Keynote Speaker:Roxane Stewart, Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo |
| 10:00am-10:15am | Questions |
4th Session: 5min talks
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15am | Devon Aguiar, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Detection and impact of sewage pollution on a south Kohala coral reef |
| 10:20am | Eszter Collier, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | From the sky above to the dirt under your feet: Mapping biological soil crusts in the Pelekane bay watershed |
| 10:25am | Jeremy Schrader, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Alalā 'Ohana: using genomic methods to estimate relatedness and its effects on fitness in the endangered Hawaiian Crow |
| 10:30am | Bret Nainoa Mossman, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Movement Diet and Survival of ʻŌmaʻo in the Kīpuka System |
| 10:35am | Koa Matsuoka, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Evaluating the Seed Dispersal Efficacy of Hawaiʻi’s Last Functionally Extant Frugivore |
| 10:40am | Jared Nishimoto, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Developing an underdominant gene drive in Culex quinquefasciatus |
5th Session: 15 min talks
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00am | Kamala Anthony, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Understanding relationships of primary productivity among three Hawaiian fishponds at Honohononui and Waiuli, Hawaii |
| 11:15am | Julia M. Stewart, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student (Co-authors: Martin Helmkampf & Misaki Takabayashi, UH Hilo Faculty) | Coral immunity: characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Toll-like receptor genes in Montipora capitata |
| 11:30am | Jazmine Panelo, UH Hilo Technician | Spatial distribution and sources of land-based nutrients at coral reefs in South Kohala |
| 11:45am | Brandie Colwell, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Forensic Files: DNA sequencing of Ruppia maritima in Hawai‘i |
12:00pm-1:45pm Lunch Break
6th Session:15 min talks
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:45pm | Corinna Anne Pinzari, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate | Genetic variation, population structure, and morphology of an endemic bat, Lasiurus cinereus semotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) across the Hawaiian Islands |
| 2:00pm | Madhvi Venkatraman, Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park | Understanding rapid adaptation to elevation post species introduction in the Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus) |
| 2:15pm | Maya Munstermann, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Ecological selectivity of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates |
| 2:30pm | Rebekah Loving, UH Hilo Undergraduate Student | Automating weed detection from sUAS-derived imagery with machine learning, using convolutional neural networks |
| 2:45pm | Rose Hart, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Quantifying shoreline change at three unique coastal geomorphologies on Hawai‘i Island |
| 3:00pm | Dominique Zarders, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Mechanisms of the possible host shift of Teleonemia scrupulosa between Lantana camara and Myoporum stellatum |
| 3:15pm | Shea Uehana, UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Student | Further investigation into the dendrochronological potential of Sophora chrysophylla on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i |
| 3:30pm | Judge Deliberation | |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Student Award Winners Announcement | |
| Silent Auction, Raffle Winners | ||
| Closing Remarks |